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The bloom is a collection of hundreds of little flowers opening at slightly different times. Read more at straitstimes.com.

A highly endangered titan among flowers that takes up to a decade or longer to bloom and mimics the stench of a rotting corpse was in full bloom on Tuesday at the Stellenbosch University Botanical Gardens.

Titan arum Titan Arum is native to Indonesia'sSumatra, but is becoming scarce due to logging, farming, and the flower's use as an aphrodisiac. The plant itself is quite spectacular, reaching heights of twelve feet, but the flower is even more amazing. A plant blooms once every 6-10 years. The flower is over 5 feet tall and 4 feet across. It has a huge phallic-like spadix emerging from the center of the flower, which may partially explain the flower's use as an aphrodisiac. The stench from the bloom, often compared to rotting animal flesh, is intended to attract carrion eating beetles to ...

Also known as Bunga Bangkai, the Corpse Flower, or Amorphophallus Titanium The titanarum is, by one definition, the world's largest flower. It is an Indonesian plant that blooms only rarely and unpredictably in its 40 year life, and emits an intense stench of rotting flesh for about eight hours of its 3 day bloom when it does so. There are only a few dozen of these endangered 6 foot plants in botanical centers, and when they bloom they attract quite a crowd both for the novelty and to experience the stench, which attracts the carrion-eating beetles which pollinate it. Well, that depends on ...